Been attending the South Pacific Educators in Vision Impairment (SPEVI) conference in Adelaide this past week. I’d like to write some reflections soon, but here are my immediate reflections at the time…as poems. A conference is a lot of learning to absorb at one time, that’s for sure.
SPEVI Daze
Days a-filled with knowledge broad
A rolling wave, informing
The researcher, teacher, parent bow
To thrust the child and student forward
A forward journey, target bound
Of arrow formed and ready
To launch from varied places trod
Next steps in each one’s story
Day or knight, we ne’er can tell
What changes may surprise us
But onward ,upward, kindred all
Press on and innovate – regardless
14/1/2020
Gina Marie
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Champions
A knight will champion
His liege’s cause
And so we need crusaders
Who go to battle
March on the walls
The battlement, overtakers
You’ve crumbled walls
Built bridges tall
Overreaching troubled waters
The scaffold now
We climb aboard
To extend the reach you bought us
And so we follow knights of old
Who’ve fought to bring together
Those left behind
Who now may find
Connection through this tether
15/1/2020
Gina Marie
On the occasion of Phia Damsma receiving her Knighthood from the King of the Netherlands